Help Ollabelle fund the release of its new album.

The amazing band Ollabelle need your help in funding the release of its next album. Click on the link to pledge your support & be a patron of the arts. We gladly pledged our support.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ollabelle/ollabelle-album

Ollabelle news.

From Ollabelle's online newsletter:

Ollabelle will be appearing at FloydFest in Floyd VA this Saturday July 25. Looks like a great lineup, so if you are in the area you should check it out.Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control the amazing show scheduled for Baltimore on the 26th with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Blind Boys of Alabama has been postponed. We're not sure how and when the show will happen again, but full refunds are available from the promoter.Glenn Patscha will be playing songs from his solo release Songs From The Jefferson Highway on July 30th at City Winery in NYC. Glenn is sharing the bill with Elysian Fields, so this should be a great show.Tickets are available here.And speaking of City Winery, Ollabelle will be playing a very special show there on October 30 with Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams. We'll be playing songs both seperately and together, so it should be a fantastic evening of music. Get a ticket now at City Winery's website.

Glenn Patscha (Ollabelle) to perform live in NYC July 30th.

Glenn Patscha of Ollabelle will join Elysian Fields in NYC for a live performance July 30th @ the City Winery.

http://www.myspace.com/glennpatscha

Upcoming Ollabelle live dates.

http://www.ollabelle.net/?mpf=frame&

Ollebelle pic from the "Smoky Hill River Festival" in KS.

Ollabelle took the stage this past Friday for this annual & very growing festival.

http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=9375&format=html

Ollabelle video clips from Merlefest 2009.

Thanks to youtube.com subscriber emmylunatic for these three wonderful versions:

http://www.youtube.com/user/emmylunatic

Gone Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0WT3vWJ4vk

High on a Mountain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXvlKmP8M6I&feature=related

Soul of a Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trN6SvYnETE&feature=related

The amazing Martha Scanlan filled in for Fiona McBain who had just given birth to a baby boy (Tony Leone, Ollabelle's drummer / singer, is the the husband & father).

Ola Belle Reed to be inducted into the "Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame."

From the Ola Belle Reed Myspace page:

The Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame will be inducting Ola Belle Reed June 12 in Wilksboro, NC . Hope You can come. Look up the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame. The Stanley Bro. and 4 others will be inducted.

Ola Belle Reed has greatly influenced a band we love called Ollabelle.

http://www.myspace.com/olabellereedfamily

Ollabelle live vid of "Corrine Corrina" from Madison Square Park performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-ZnNfI7uE

Ollabelle live vid from Madison Square Park performing "Traveling Wilbury's" "Congratulations."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4pkmnAb4rE&feature=related

"Ollabelle" to perform @ MD's "DelFest" this Memorial Day wkd.

http://www.delfest.com/

Happy b'day to the late Big Joe Turner!

The blues singer from Kansas City would have turned 98 today. He passed away in '85. Big Joe influenced many great musicians, including Taj Mahal who recorded Big Joe's hit Corrine, Corrina, also more recently performed live by the very talented band Ollabelle w/ drummer / vocalist Tony Leone on lead. Big Joe was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in '87.

Roll 'em boy,
Gonna jump for joy,

Yeah man,

happy as a baby boy,

My baby just brought me a brand new choo-choo toy.

"Yep Roc Records" a great live download source.

You can nail down some great live downloads from artists, such as Ollabelle & John Doe & The Sadies.

http://www.yeproc.com/

Congrats to "Ollabelle's" Fiona McBain & Tony Leone!

Fiona recently gave birth to the couple's first child, a baby girl.

http://www.ollabelle.net/

Tony Leone (Ollebelle) performing "Holy Cow."

Ollebelle's drummer & co-lead singer Tony Leone recently performed w/ Levon Helm @ NJ's Wellmont Theater on Holy Cow. This is a great tune written by Allen Toussaint & recorded by The Band on Moondog Matinee back in the early'70s. Great tune. Leone hails from a Hartford, CT suburb, performs w/ Helm, Ollabelle & the Chris Bergson Band. He is an extremely cool talent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFUrGOLPxx4

Congrats to Ollabelle's Glenn Patscha!

Glenn & his wife welcomed a baby boy Nov. 13th.

Congrats to Ollabelle's Fiona McBain & Tony Leone!

We wish the two of them well as they recently took another step in the relationship by getting married.

Tonight's Ollabelle performance cancelled.

Just heard from Ollabelle's drummer (Tony Leone) that tonight's scheduled gig @ Newmarket, NH's Stone Church has been cancelled. This comes as no surprise as the Stone Church was recently saved from foreclosure a couple of wkds ago & is reorganizing. Bummer.

Boston fans can catch Ollabelle w/ Mavis Staples & Chris Smither tomorrow night in Cambridge, MA.

Martha Scanlan's album.

Just picked up Martha's '07 album The West Was Burning that was recorded @ Levon Helm's studio / barn & in Louisiana. We were fortunate enough to see her perform a couple of Saturday's ago when she filled in for Amy Helm w/ Ollabelle @ the 137th Tunbridge (VT) World's Fair (in 2nd pic wearing dark tanktop). She has a beautiful voice fit for the similar music genre as Levon & Ollabelle. Levon, Amy & Glenn Patscha all participated in the recording of her album.

www.marthascanlan.com

Ollabelle's Glen Patscha to be on Conan O'Brien tomorrow night.

Glen Patscha, keyboardist / accordian / co-vocalist for Ollabelle, will perform w/ Loudon Wainwright tomorrow night on The Conan O'Brien Show.

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Ollabelle's bassist / dobro / vocalist Byron Isaacs.

Houston, TX native (now NYC) Byron Isaacs is another one of Ollabelle's multitalented musicians - bass, dobro & co-vocalist. Married & father of two, he is another band member that we have connected with, such as we have w/ Glen. We also recently found out he wrote Calvary on Levon Helm's Grammy winning Dirt Farmer album (also played bass on the album). Extremely gratious gentleman.

http://www.ollabelle.net/